It is one of the largest performing arts groups in China and has won eighteen Plum Blossom Prizes and twenty-one Wen Hua Awards.
It has operated for more than fifty years and was named "National Key Peking Opera Troupe" by China's Ministry of Culture in 2005.
Examples include The Young Lady Died for Love, Give Bread on Hongqiao, Rickshaw Boy, Wang Xifeng and the Strike in Ningguo Mansion and Tale of the Green Snake.
Starting on 16 February 2016, at Shaw Park Scarborough, Tobago, the JPAG staged a free, two day long cultural exchange event in collaboration with the Chinese Embassy.
[7] The JPAG has successfully hosted or produced large song and dance shows on both the provincial and national level, including at the 1st China Culture Industry Forum, the opening and closing ceremonies of the 8th Sports Meeting of Chinese Middle School Students, the opening ceremony of the 6th National Paralympics, the exhibition Into the Pyramid - An Exhibition of Ancient Egypt Treasure, and at the Nanjing Ming Dynasty Mausoleum, a World Cultural Heritage site.